problems, official releases from the American Atheists claim the move was simply for space issues and that the library needed to be bigger. In late 1993 a computer with the only copy of the library's catalog was stolen and never recovered. In 1997, the IRS finally took away tax-exemption status from all of the American Atheist organizations, including the CESAALA. The IRS claimed that the library owed nearly $20,000 in back taxes. This loss of tax-exemption status would hinder the library's ability to accept donations, since contributors would not be able to write such charitable donations off in their taxes. Future plans According to the current CESAALA librarian Timothy Dicks, the library still has "a huge quantity of letters, ephemera, and other items that we have to identify and catalogue." There also are thousands of hours' worth of audio and video recordings being archived at the library on a wide variety of media. Because of the degradation rate of such formats, like cassette and videotape, librarians at CESAALA are working fast to digitize the audio and video which include American Atheist conventions and protests, the American Atheist Radio series, and the American Atheist Oral History Project. The library plans to create a searchable, public catalog that will contain the digitized formats of rare documents, photographs, video and audio; although the library is not currently open to the public, serious researchers can contact the American Atheists for access to the collection. References External links Atheist organizations Archives in the United States Libraries in New Jersey